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Hello, I'm new to codeigniter and trying to learn as much as i can about it for building my website! I know this is very easy to do when writing the code yourself but trying to do it in codeigniter is hard for me!

Problem
I am writing my blog from the ground up. As you can see i have managed to display the articles but unfortunately it is showing the whole post which is not very attractive! I would like to be able to shorten the content to a certain amount of words and then add a 'read me..' link that will take me into the selected article page!

My Code currently active on i know its very basic code and has no checking if articles exist ill add all that in later .